With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACEWhat prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
More Horace Quotes
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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One cannot know everything.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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